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April 20, 2005

Centrist Columnists

John Avlon of the New York Sun has long been our favorite columnist. Now, columnist Kathleen Parker has taken a shine to him, and praises him in her column. She seems to be center-right, and is a centrist on abortion.


My middle road, of course, makes me equally contemptible to those who dwell in the peripheries - both to the pro-lifers who view all abortion as murder, and to the slippery-slopers who consider objecting to "partial-birth abortion" tantamount to embracing the Vatican's view of The Pill. Caught between extremes of community morality and individual choice - amid near-hysterical ideological partisanship from parties that have been hijacked by radicals - people like me are adrift.

Posted by rickheller at April 20, 2005 11:32 AM
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A balance between idealism and realism, centrism is a yin-yang proposition that rejects shrill extremes and embraces reason, decency and a practical perspective. To those who insist that centrism is the death of dissent, Avlon argues that centrism is dissent - from outdated political orthodoxies.

I love it.

Posted by: Tully at April 20, 2005 01:18 PM
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